Present there on invitation were Kim Yong Il, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Choe Chang Sik, minister of Public Health, Pak Kun Gwang, vice department director of the C.C., the WPK, Kim Hyong Jun, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, So Ho Won, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and officials concerned.

Staff members of the Palestinian embassy were on hand.

The ambassador said in his speech that he extends thanks to the Korean people always supporting the just cause of the Palestinian people.

He noted that the friendly relations between the two countries and peoples provided by Yasser Arafat and President Kim Il Sung are growing stronger day by day.

Kim Yong Il said in his speech that it is the consistent stand of the WPK and the DPRK government to invariably consolidate and develop the traditional relations of friendship between the DPRK and Palestine.

He will support and encourage the Palestinian people in their just cause to establish an independent state with Kuds as its capital, he added.